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RUSH: Here\u2019s May, Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Been listening to you since 1988.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow. You\u2019re a lifer. That\u2019s year one. Thank you so much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: A lifer, indeed. Two points. First of all, I was a little surprised that Bernie Sanders didn\u2019t attack Hillary for the Clinton I think it\u2019s, what, the community…? You know, get a house with almost no money down thing, from when Bill Clinton was president that kind of started the whole hedge fund thing? You know, he didn\u2019t mention Soros contributing to her campaign. And then the second thing — and I\u2019m gonna hush after I say this — is we have to get some of the lightweights out of the Republican campaign or we\u2019re gonna lose to either a criminal or a socialist. And I do wonder what your thoughts are.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, wait a minute. You need to name some names. Who do you mean the GOP lightweights gotta go?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Lightweights. You know, if you don\u2019t have 10%. You know, because our country, we really decide by March who the president\u2019s gonna be, because the —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so let\u2019s name names. So you think Christie should get out, you think Jeb should get out, you think Kasich should get out, you think Fiorina should get out, you think… Rand Paul go did get out. Santorum did. Who is left? Jim Gilmore?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, maybe after this week Bush or Christie, probably Christie gets out. He\u2019s at, what, 2% or 4% or something like that. And all this infighting, I just think it\u2019s terrible for our party. There are too many candidates. We need to rally together or we\u2019re gonna have one of these idiots in the White House.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let me give you a counter theory. All of these “lightweights,” as you describe them — let it be known that it was May in Jacksonville, Florida, who described \u2019em as “lightweights.” The “lightweights” you\u2019re describing are all establishment candidates, right? So what about…?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t mean they\u2019re lightweights.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I mean, percentage-wise in the polls, they don\u2019t have very much.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re bringing up the end; they don\u2019t have a lot of support. I gotcha. I gotcha. You don\u2019t mean they\u2019re lightweight intellectually. You don\u2019t mean they\u2019re dumb people. You\u2019re just —<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean the losers, the people at the trailing end. Here\u2019s the thing. What about this theory? What about keeping them in divides the establishment vote and establishment money and keeps it from unifying around a candidate who, I guarantee you, you probably don\u2019t support? Not… I don\u2019t have a candidate.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am a Rubio supporter. I think… I don\u2019t think that, in all the times we\u2019ve had a person running for president, that we\u2019ve have had someone be quite so insulting and bigoted-sounding and just angry like Trump.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right…<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t think he has a chance, but that\u2019s just my opinion, and you obviously know a lot more than I do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No! Nobody knows who\u2019s gonna win this. Nobody knows. Like the polling data that\u2019s out there now — you can believe it or not — going into Iowa, 13 of those polls were wrong. The recent history of polling is its inaccuracy. Remember… Who was it? Gallup said they\u2019re getting out of the presidential horse race balloting because they\u2019ve been so wrong. Well, 13 pre-election polls, pre-caucus polls in Iowa were wrong. Thirteen of them had Trump winning by four. He lost by four. The same polls are saying that Trump\u2019s negatives are so high nationwide that any Democrat, Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton, would wipe the floor with him.<\/p>\n

And then they say that Cruz\u2019s electability numbers are low. The same polls that are wrong going into Iowa. I look at those polls, particularly those polls, and I… Folks, I have to tell you: To me, they\u2019re meaningless. We are barely into February, and we\u2019re supposed to make decisions here based on what polls tell us people will and will not do in November? There\u2019s not enough data yet. You can\u2019t say that whatever the number is… Let\u2019s say Trump, his unfavorable or negative numbers, 50. Let\u2019s just make it up. I don\u2019t know what it is. Say it\u2019s 50. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not gonna be 50 if he\u2019s the nominee, when there\u2019s only Trump versus the Democrat. Throw the number out. You throw the number out for any of them. Cruz as well. Some of this polling data serves a purpose. Some of it\u2019s accurate; some of it isn\u2019t. But this stuff that purports to tell us who doesn\u2019t stand a chance in November? Isn\u2019t it interesting it\u2019s always the front-runners that those polls are telling us that about? I\u2019ve always been suspicious of that. In the current case, Cruz and Trump both supposedly have massively high unfavorable numbers, and those numbers are being translated by polling experts as “can\u2019t win a national election.” <\/p>\n

“Hillary Clinton will mop the floor with either one.” <\/line><\/p>\n

Really? <\/p>\n

Okay, so what are we supposed to do? <\/p>\n

“Well, Jeb Bush shows up best against Hillary in our poll.” <\/p>\n

Jeb Bush can\u2019t get beyond 3% in the primary. <\/p>\n

“Yeah, but when you get to November, Jeb Bush has got the…”<\/p>\n

Are you kidding me? And they want us to make decisions now based on that? Isn\u2019t it fascinating that our front-runner, whoever they are — whoever the front-runners are, happen to be, according to polls — are the guys with the smallest or least chance of beating Hillary and the Democrats. I smell a huge rat with that stuff. But, May, I don\u2019t know any more than you do about what\u2019s gonna happen. Nobody knows what\u2019s gonna happen. I mean, there are educated guesses, wild guesses, but nobody knows. I appreciate your call. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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